Friends of Brook Park

Friends of Brook Park needs your help. Volunteer, Intern, Donate. Now is the time. While we are proud to bring you our environmental programs, we need your support to keep us going. Whether you've just met us, known us for a season or our ten plus years, now is a great time to help us out with a generous end-of-year donation. Donate today. Visit here and click "Donate": http://www.friendsofbrookpark.org/contact-us/donate/ Your contribution is fully tax-deductible before 2012 and will go directly to offering nature education activities, making New York a greener, healthier place to live. In the words of a ninth grader: "Today I visited Brook Park and I loved being there feeling the air on my face and tasting nutrients that are fresh and clean and from mother nature herself. Places like this are important because they let people stop and think and breathe in the good nature air and take a step back to what we have to do to keep our planet healthy and clean. Brook Park is called Brook Park because there was/is a body of water under all… that there is right now. What I loved about this experience was that I did a lot of things I never thought I would be able to do. All that was new to me, and I'd love for someone else to have an experience with places like Brook Park." Your support has helped us:

• Advocate and agitate to obtain a commitment form Con Edison to invest over $1 to make the Bronx Kill more navigable
• Continue to expand a model of urban farming, with hundreds of youth involved in organic gardening with local and city-wide schools and groups like Build On
• Expand our growing area and finish our engineering design for our brook restoration project with Gaia Institute and the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration
• Gain permission to land and launch at Mill Pond Park
• Succeed with the Harlem River Working Group to garner a visit by the Interior Secretary Ken Salazaar
• Be selected for a prestigious historic preservation project recognition
• Hosting many arts and indigenous cultural gatherings uniting a diverse array of people with groups like Vamos La Pena and United Confederation of Taino People, the South Bronx Community Congress, and more
• Engaging in city and state-wide, regional, national and international efforts about Climate Change and to BAN fracking
• Packing a public hearing about the future of community gardens, promoting a law to preserve them all
• Building a 12 chicken coop led by volunteers with support from Just Food And more! Donate online here today: http://www.friendsofbrookpark.org/contact-us/donate/ We know this is a busy time of year, but please take a moment to give right now, knowing that you've done your part to support an organization you care about and a cause you believe in. Support Friends of Brook Park today. As the year ends, we at FoBP want to thank those of you who have helped us this year with contributions of much-needed funding, volunteer time, and personal support. You sustain us. To more! Harry J. Bubbins Executive Director P.S. Friends of Brook Park is a 501(c)(3) organization – your donation is deductible to the fullest extent allowable by law. Please remember to make your contribution by December 31 for a 2012 tax deduction. You can also help by by sharing this appeal with your network of friends and family, on Facebook too. Visit here to "LIKE" this appeal: http://www.friendsofbrookpark.org/contact-us/donate/ If you have used the garden or the rivers, or just appreciate what we do, please email this letter out with a personal note to your friends and colleagues and families. Some companies have a matching grant fund, please inquire about that at your place of work.

Thanks for all you do.

More than a decade before PlaNYC2030 was announced, we have been engaged in numerous initiatives to make our city more green and livable.

We have accomplished much in a very short time:

• Featured in Sierra Club's national magazine for our environmental educational programming: http://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/201009/plantingseeds.aspx

• Highlighted in the national Salon website for our urban agriculture initiatives: http://www.salon.com/food/feature/2010/05/17/community_gardens_slide_show

Featured in the NY Times for our community gardening advocacy: http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/07/06/impending-rules-worry-some-community-gardeners/